دورية أكاديمية

Applicability of artificial neural network for estimating the forest growing stock

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Applicability of artificial neural network for estimating the forest growing stock
المؤلفون: Mahmoud Bayat, Manouchehr Namiranian, Mahmoud Omid, Arman Rashidi, Sajjad Babaei
المصدر: تحقیقات جنگل و صنوبر ایران, Vol 24, Iss 2, Pp 226-214 (2016)
بيانات النشر: Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands of Iran, 2016.
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: LCC:Forestry
مصطلحات موضوعية: Gorazbon section, Artificial neural network, regressions models, volume, Forestry, SD1-669.5
الوصف: Knowledge on stand’s quantitative and qualitative characteristics (tree volume and growth) are fundamental requirements for monitoring close-to-nature forest management plans. In addition, future planning is based on statistics and information obtained from the forest. Thus, structural information such as standing stock, growth and diameter distribution are highly required. Volume increment provides the amount of allowable annual cut. In this study 768.4 ha of virgin forests located in Gorazbon district in Kheyroud educational- experimental Forest was inventoried by 258 permanent sample plots measured in 2012. Following elimination of statistical deficiency and exclusion of deviated points, the data were divided into 80% training and 20% test data to examine the applied neural network. The data was initially standardized by using training data. Neural network with back propagation error algorithm was developed. Furthermore, volume was regressed against diameter, height, slope and aspect using the allocated training data. Model diagnostics including R2, MAE and RMSE were applied for evaluating those two methods. The analysis resulted in R2=0.98, MAE=0.69 and RMSE=1.006, respectively. For the regression method the diagnostics amounted in R2=0.85, MAE=0.95 and RMSE=2.5. The results have suggest the higher accuracy of neural network for growing stock estimation compared to regression approach. However, care must be taken during data preparation, network design and network training to reach an optimum final model. It is concluded that this model should be further considered and applied for the estimation of volume across the study area.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: Persian
تدمد: 1735-0883
2383-1146
Relation: http://ijfpr.areeo.ac.ir/article_106985_960d5c31fa6975362974e5a73a181152.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/1735-0883; https://doaj.org/toc/2383-1146
DOI: 10.22092/ijfpr.2016.106985
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/59e4df57bbda42a78d1a1cf24803a72a
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.59e4df57bbda42a78d1a1cf24803a72a
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:17350883
23831146
DOI:10.22092/ijfpr.2016.106985